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Craig is on with Jack Heath today and talked about Jamal Kashoggi in the Saudi consul. Did his Apple Watch record his murder? They also discussed why should we share our DNA.

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Airing date: 10/22/2018

Kashoggi In The Saudi Consul - Did The Apple Watch Record His Murder - Why Should You Share DNA

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey good morning everybody Craig Peterson here this morning on iHeart Radio with the Jack Heath I talked about this whole situation in Saudi Arabia. You've heard about Kashoggi and what may have happened to him what may not have happened to him while we debunk the myth about his iWatch he has an Apple Watch 3, at least he did and what happened there and get into a little bit of DNA some people including Justin just don't want to give their DNA up but why would you? What are some of the greater good arguments for that so here we go with Jack Heath.

Unknown 0:39
Joining us down the Auto Fair listeners lines Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy with some tech talk for our Monday Good morning Craig

Unknown 0:45
Hey good morning I don't know if you've heard about the rumors about the Apple Watch and Kashoggi's disappearance. Have you heard about the recordings and thing no I have not well it's interesting because there's a pro Turkish Government newspaper that has been reporting that they have audio of what happens as part of the showpiece disappearance there in the Saudi embassy in Turkey and there are a few people that have done a little bit of research into this because we know to show he had an Apple Watch read and the Turkish Government has been using this whole Apple Watch scenario as a reason for them to have audio of exactly what happened inside of the embassy from a technology standpoint because of all the circumstances surrounding this that sounds like that's just absolutely not even possible and is probably actually kind of indicating here Jack that the Turkish Government has monitoring equipment at least audio equipment inside the Saudi embassy and they're using the story about the Apple Watch it does cover up the fact that they've been spying on the Saudis interesting this

Unknown 2:00
is like this is getting all this is getting more mysterious by the hour the Turkish leader now saying that video that will show over the next day or two just what happened to show you this is getting to be almost like a international mystery mystery spy whatever but it's it's unfolding in a very awkward way for the Saudis

Unknown 2:20
it is it absolutely is and the thing hard video probably the only way they got that video is again by having fun because if the I want I agree wants to record it. Yeah, it's the I watch was to record it. There's there's almost no way that the Turkish government should have gotten their hands on it.

Unknown 2:39
I would agree. Alright, what else is catching your eyes? We begin our week on the tech side. Craig Peterson. http://craigpeterson.com.

Unknown 2:46
Well, there's a few different articles I sent out this week. One of them that I think is really interesting to most people is that DNA side of thing, many of us at myself included have used some of these services, particularly 23 and me have you done that before Jack? No

Unknown 3:04
DevOps. But

Unknown 3:06
I don't know if you would probably know if you had sent it in. But more than 60% of Americans now who have some European ancestry can be identified using DNA database for jack, can you if you haven't

Unknown 3:20
submitted the DNA of you send it to Senator Elizabeth Warren's office yet

Unknown 3:25
By the way, did you know that apparently some reports that I've seen show that the gentleman who came out and said yes, indeed she does have a drop of Indian blood that sheet that that gentleman who is a DNA researcher and Senator warns husband apparently had gone into business together before. So there's some interesting ties there. But even if you have not submitted your DNA, more than half of Americans now that our European ancestry can be identified by their DNA. So your DNA was founded a crime scene Jack would be in trouble, but it's the same with almost anybody of European descent. So it's an interesting world we're living in today. And the Golden State killer of course, was identified by his DNA many years later, he was a serial killer and also a conflict the time even though he has not submitted any

Unknown 4:23
Bill Burr the comedian he's talking about this, Craig, this is the biggest no brainer of all time, I'm just gonna give someone my DNA so they can put it in a database not to put a tinfoil hat on. But no way now you're not getting DNA.

Unknown 4:35
Yeah. And there's good reasons to not share with people. They are using it for research, however, and some things I think are ultimately going to come from this because they're using the DNA, they're asking questions. For instance, with me, they've asked over 800 questions that are kind of health related, because when it comes to DNA, it's a guessing game. They don't really know what each strand of DNA each piece does. So they have to have a huge database of information with DNA, put it all together to come up with these new drugs, and eventually drugs that are created specifically for you in order to help you get over all kinds of diseases. So it's two sides to this, Justin. One is that yeah, it is certainly going to kind of play with your privacy. But secondarily, this will save lives in the future.

Unknown 5:29
I correct provocative stuff. Great to tied to the local stuff, and the situation with the console at the Saudi consulate in Turkey. Thank you, sir.

Unknown 5:36
All right. Take care when we come back.

Unknown 5:40
Hi, everybody. You know, I've committed to doing 100 of these cyber health assessments for small businesses 100 free for before the end of the year, okay, so you got to sign up right away. But these have a look at your computer, your we're trying to figure out where your problems are. And then we're going to be providing you with a bunch of stuff. We're going to continue to try and help you with your small business security. Now, I'm not selling anything on these webinars. It's absolutely free. Obviously, no credit card required. We've got to help you out. And I understand you're busy, busy. Most people are writing most people listening to this podcast, in the gym, in the car, etc. But you've got to sign up. You got to understand this stuff. A lot of it applies to home users as well. So you're welcome to attend. But small businesses have the most to lose. And being a small business guy for more than 40 years. I know what will happen to small businesses when they get hacked. And it is when nowadays I don't want it to happen to you. So go to http://craigpeterson.com make sure you sign up for my webinar right there. We're going to have a whole series of different webinars starting this week. So sign up and we're going to have one probably every week through the end of the year as we try and explain all of these issues that small businesses have and what you can do about it there's going to be a good How to section of all of this too so stick around. http://craigpeterson.com. Keep an eye out and join me you know, again, free quick short, we're getting you the information and the how to I'm going to show you some of the free software that you can use some of the things you already have the tools you have, how to use them the tools on Windows, the tools on your Mac what you should be doing what the settings should be all of that http://craigpeterson.com. Hey, have a great day. We'll be back tomorrow with Mr. Jim Polito.

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Craig is on with Jack Heath today and talked about Jamal Kashoggi in the Saudi consul. Did his Apple Watch record his murder? They also discussed why should we share our DNA.

These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Is Your DNA In A Database? Doesn’t Matter. New Study Finds That DNA Databases Can Send The Police Or Hackers To Your Door – Even If You Didn’t Submit Your DNA

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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 10/22/2018

Kashoggi In The Saudi Consul - Did The Apple Watch Record His Murder - Why Should You Share DNA

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey good morning everybody Craig Peterson here this morning on iHeart Radio with the Jack Heath I talked about this whole situation in Saudi Arabia. You've heard about Kashoggi and what may have happened to him what may not have happened to him while we debunk the myth about his iWatch he has an Apple Watch 3, at least he did and what happened there and get into a little bit of DNA some people including Justin just don't want to give their DNA up but why would you? What are some of the greater good arguments for that so here we go with Jack Heath.

Unknown 0:39
Joining us down the Auto Fair listeners lines Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy with some tech talk for our Monday Good morning Craig

Unknown 0:45
Hey good morning I don't know if you've heard about the rumors about the Apple Watch and Kashoggi's disappearance. Have you heard about the recordings and thing no I have not well it's interesting because there's a pro Turkish Government newspaper that has been reporting that they have audio of what happens as part of the showpiece disappearance there in the Saudi embassy in Turkey and there are a few people that have done a little bit of research into this because we know to show he had an Apple Watch read and the Turkish Government has been using this whole Apple Watch scenario as a reason for them to have audio of exactly what happened inside of the embassy from a technology standpoint because of all the circumstances surrounding this that sounds like that's just absolutely not even possible and is probably actually kind of indicating here Jack that the Turkish Government has monitoring equipment at least audio equipment inside the Saudi embassy and they're using the story about the Apple Watch it does cover up the fact that they've been spying on the Saudis interesting this

Unknown 2:00
is like this is getting all this is getting more mysterious by the hour the Turkish leader now saying that video that will show over the next day or two just what happened to show you this is getting to be almost like a international mystery mystery spy whatever but it's it's unfolding in a very awkward way for the Saudis

Unknown 2:20
it is it absolutely is and the thing hard video probably the only way they got that video is again by having fun because if the I want I agree wants to record it. Yeah, it's the I watch was to record it. There's there's almost no way that the Turkish government should have gotten their hands on it.

Unknown 2:39
I would agree. Alright, what else is catching your eyes? We begin our week on the tech side. Craig Peterson. http://craigpeterson.com.

Unknown 2:46
Well, there's a few different articles I sent out this week. One of them that I think is really interesting to most people is that DNA side of thing, many of us at myself included have used some of these services, particularly 23 and me have you done that before Jack? No

Unknown 3:04
DevOps. But

Unknown 3:06
I don't know if you would probably know if you had sent it in. But more than 60% of Americans now who have some European ancestry can be identified using DNA database for jack, can you if you haven't

Unknown 3:20
submitted the DNA of you send it to Senator Elizabeth Warren's office yet

Unknown 3:25
By the way, did you know that apparently some reports that I've seen show that the gentleman who came out and said yes, indeed she does have a drop of Indian blood that sheet that that gentleman who is a DNA researcher and Senator warns husband apparently had gone into business together before. So there's some interesting ties there. But even if you have not submitted your DNA, more than half of Americans now that our European ancestry can be identified by their DNA. So your DNA was founded a crime scene Jack would be in trouble, but it's the same with almost anybody of European descent. So it's an interesting world we're living in today. And the Golden State killer of course, was identified by his DNA many years later, he was a serial killer and also a conflict the time even though he has not submitted any

Unknown 4:23
Bill Burr the comedian he's talking about this, Craig, this is the biggest no brainer of all time, I'm just gonna give someone my DNA so they can put it in a database not to put a tinfoil hat on. But no way now you're not getting DNA.

Unknown 4:35
Yeah. And there's good reasons to not share with people. They are using it for research, however, and some things I think are ultimately going to come from this because they're using the DNA, they're asking questions. For instance, with me, they've asked over 800 questions that are kind of health related, because when it comes to DNA, it's a guessing game. They don't really know what each strand of DNA each piece does. So they have to have a huge database of information with DNA, put it all together to come up with these new drugs, and eventually drugs that are created specifically for you in order to help you get over all kinds of diseases. So it's two sides to this, Justin. One is that yeah, it is certainly going to kind of play with your privacy. But secondarily, this will save lives in the future.

Unknown 5:29
I correct provocative stuff. Great to tied to the local stuff, and the situation with the console at the Saudi consulate in Turkey. Thank you, sir.

Unknown 5:36
All right. Take care when we come back.

Unknown 5:40
Hi, everybody. You know, I've committed to doing 100 of these cyber health assessments for small businesses 100 free for before the end of the year, okay, so you got to sign up right away. But these have a look at your computer, your we're trying to figure out where your problems are. And then we're going to be providing you with a bunch of stuff. We're going to continue to try and help you with your small business security. Now, I'm not selling anything on these webinars. It's absolutely free. Obviously, no credit card required. We've got to help you out. And I understand you're busy, busy. Most people are writing most people listening to this podcast, in the gym, in the car, etc. But you've got to sign up. You got to understand this stuff. A lot of it applies to home users as well. So you're welcome to attend. But small businesses have the most to lose. And being a small business guy for more than 40 years. I know what will happen to small businesses when they get hacked. And it is when nowadays I don't want it to happen to you. So go to http://craigpeterson.com make sure you sign up for my webinar right there. We're going to have a whole series of different webinars starting this week. So sign up and we're going to have one probably every week through the end of the year as we try and explain all of these issues that small businesses have and what you can do about it there's going to be a good How to section of all of this too so stick around. http://craigpeterson.com. Keep an eye out and join me you know, again, free quick short, we're getting you the information and the how to I'm going to show you some of the free software that you can use some of the things you already have the tools you have, how to use them the tools on Windows, the tools on your Mac what you should be doing what the settings should be all of that http://craigpeterson.com. Hey, have a great day. We'll be back tomorrow with Mr. Jim Polito.

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Wow,  Wi-Fi is in for some major changes! Today, I will talk about some of the huge changes to our Wi-Fi system and what it means to you.

Chinese hackers are at it again.  I will tell you about their two new targets and why you need to be on extremely careful if you own a business.

Google - Friend or Foe?  I will discuss something that Google is doing that should scare the “bejesus” out of all of us.  Have they turned into Janus? Seems maybe so.

Have you had your DNA tested?  Listen in as I explain why most of us of European Ancestry can be identified even if our DNA is not in any of the DNA databases.

Do you turn off your PC at night?  Listen in as we discuss what six of the top manufacturers have to say about turning your PC off at night.

Craig is putting up a new insider site (Yes, it is free, but you have to sign up)  On it will have all his special reports that he puts out and you will be the first to get them.

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Airing date: 10/20/2018

Chinese Hackers, DNA Databases, New Wi-Fi Standards, Google in bed with the Chinese and more

Craig Peterson: Hey, Good Morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here every Saturday about the same time. So, I hope you continue to join me. We're going to be talking about some of the technology that's going to influence you, the movers and shakers, as it were in the technology field. And, there are quite a few of them. Things keep changing all the time. In fact, today we are going to be talking about the next big change in Wi-Fi. You know, we've talked about the new fifth-generation LTE for our phones before. This is huge. We've got two new targets for hackers, two new big ones, will be talking about today. And, that includes anybody who uses outsourced IT vendors. Yes, indeed, we'll be talking about that. In fact, that article both of those should be in your newsletter that you got this morning. If you didn't get it, make sure you subscribe. Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. We've got a really kind of an interesting turn around here for Google and the white house when it comes to China. Yeah, is Google two-faced will no that, that's not possible. Turns out maybe they are. DNA databases. I know a lot of people who have done DNA research, they've submitted their DNA. And I know many people who refuse to, of course, we just had DNA in the news with Senator Elizabeth Warren and her claim to having Native American ancestry. Turns out she has less Native American ancestry than the average European American. I thought that was pretty funny. But, even if you did not submit your DNA to one of these sites, they can probably track you down. This is interesting, almost any European American now can be identified by their DNA, even if, they didn't put it into one of these DNA databanks. How's that even possible? So we'll talk about that. And, we are finally going to put the nail in the coffin. Well, maybe? About your PC. Does turn it off at night? Make it last longer. Boy have I had a lot of discussions about that over the years with clients and friends and employees. So, we'll get right down to the bottom. We've got answers from six of the top manufacturers of computers. And, we will discuss what they had to say about our devices. Should we be turning them off? And, you know, I kind of wonder, do they have a bias, right? Are they going to tell us the wrong thing so, that our computers break more quickly? Hmm, interesting question, isn't it? Anyhow, Welcome. Welcome. Craig Peterson. And of course, this is Tech Talk. So getting into this, we'll start with China, of course, Communist China, Red China, whatever you might want to call it is very central government controlled. I think most people know that. I kind of wonder about some of the younger kids. It seemed to think that just this panacea, it's a democracy where 98% of the people vote, but that's not this show. But we do know that China has been very active militarily. Their main goal of the People's Liberation Army, when it comes to conquering another country, right now, seems to be cyber warfare. It's something that they can do, inexpensively. It's unlikely that they would lose lives, in the process. And, they're also using their cyber warfare technologies in order to make some bucks. Yes, indeed, China is hacking. Now, I told you about a client that we picked up here just a few weeks ago, who lost $180,000 Right from the bank account. Stolen right out of that. As part of the business email compromise, The FBI is telling us has yielded 12 billion plus dollars to hackers. Money, real money, okay. This is not, "Oh, 12  billion in lost productivity". And, you say, "Well, how do you figure that out"? Is that kind of like, wait a minute now, 20% of our employees are out sick on Fridays. So, there must be something going on? Well, but you do the math. Okay. 20% on Friday? Well, Friday is 20% of a work week. Okay. So there's, there's the math that that used right in the statistics, damn statistics and lies. And then there's a math that in this case, means $12 billion stolen from

Craig Peterson  4:31
companies.

Craig Peterson  4:32
And, I know companies where this has happened to, right here. And when you're talking about $12 billion stolen in the last 24 months,

Craig Peterson  4:41
we're talking about companies, all over the place, cause that's a lot of money. And, in this particular case, hundred $180,000 was their operating capital all gone, overnight. So, they thought it was a Chinese hacker. The police investigated found it was a Chinese hacker. So, they flew over to China to file police papers, which they did. And, of course, nothing happened, nothing's going to happen. It's impossible to get any of that money back. Well, the US government on Wednesday warned that there's a hacking group

Craig Peterson  5:18
that's known by the name cloud Hopper, and they are attacking firms

Craig Peterson  5:26
in the United States. But, they're specifically launching attacks against one type of firm.

Craig Peterson  5:31
Now, I've had a hard time in and I'd love it. If you'd help me with this. You can just text me directly 855-385-5553 with your answer, cause I'd love to hear from you.

Craig Peterson  5:44
But

Craig Peterson  5:44
the specific type of firm I look at my customers and my customers have tended over the last 30 years to be smaller companies that have grown. And they've grown to the point where they're IT their information technology. isn't enough for non-professional to handle, but they can't really afford to hire the right kind of person. And, of course, in this day and age, it's impossible for a small or medium company to hire someone that really understands security. It's changing daily, it's just, it's crazy. So, what do you call a company like that, you know, the mid-tier, where it used to be that the office manager would bring in her husband and kid to do some work on the network. Install a new little firewall, they went down to staples, they bought a switch, but now they're too big, they've had problems. Maybe they got sacked with ransomware, and they realize they need more help. So, it's kind of I always thought a "tweener", right? It's a 'Tweenie" company. But I guess, you know, that kind of sounds negative, doesn't it? Because that's like a “tweenager”, somebody who's not quite a teenager. What is that? Like, the 12-11-year-olds? They're tweens. Not quite teens yet. And so they're not quite at the point where they can have their own professional IT staff, but they kind of need them, what would you call that? I'd love to hear from you. I'm trying to figure out how, how, how, what, what to call those types of companies.

Craig Peterson  7:13
And, when we're talking about that, and that type of a company we're talking about someone

Craig Peterson  7:20
that typically outsources to what's known in the industry as a managed services provider. And, that's what we've been doing since the early 90s. Since 91, we've been doing managed security services and managed Computer Services. And that's where I think they fit. You've got the small company, they're too big for, you know, Uncle Jack to come in and help them anymore, or the nieces and nephews. They need more than that, but they can't really afford a professional. And, in this day and age, there's no way you can get a professional you might think you are but you can't afford them. Because true professional now was going for well north of $100,000. 120

Craig Peterson  8:05
and $180,000 a year. So, they turn to companies like mine. Managed security services, or just straight Managed services. And, these companies come in and they help with figuring out what computers do you need, you need to do an upgrade, they'll fix something that's wrong. And, hopefully, they'll manage the security by getting into the computers and messing with them, as needed, doing the updates, doing the changeover into the new security software, right all of that sort of stuff. Well think about those companies here for just a second and I'm talking about these managed security companies. The outsourced IT people. Well, the Department of Homeland Security issued a technical alert saying that this group from China is engaged in cyber espionage and theft of intellectual

Craig Peterson  8:59
property

Craig Peterson  9:01
against these outsourced IT providers. A very, very big deal. Two prominent US cybersecurity companies are warning, that the Chinese have been caught by them hacking, actively trying to get in and that had surged, and that this whole thing is part of the escalating trade war between Beijing and Washington. So, what this means is, your managed services provider your outsourced IT company is being attacked and maybe even hacked. And what does that mean to you? Well, think about what they do for you. You call them up and they hop on your computer, right? We do it all the time for our clients. That means they have access to your network, your outsourced IT guys have access your network, right. They have access to you a file server. They might have the master administration passwords for that file server. They have full access to your network.

Craig Peterson  10:02
So, why wouldn't China try and hack

Craig Peterson  10:05
these managed services providers? Why wouldn't China try and hack these IT providers? This is a very big deal for them because then they get access to all of the companies that work with that managed IT, provider. Do you see where this is going? You see the problem.

Craig Peterson  10:23
Now

Craig Peterson  10:24
I mentioned this company that had lost $180,000, it was stolen and it's gone in 90 seconds. It's just its toast. Right? It is completely gone. So, I mentioned them and think about this for a second, How did they get into their bank account?

Craig Peterson  10:42
Well, although, this company security was abysmal, as most smaller companies are. They got their information stolen via their accountant.

Craig Peterson  10:55
Now an accountant, in this case, it's very similar to an outsourced IT provider, isn't it. The accountant had all of their banking information, right. All of their tax returns. Had access to all of this. That makes it a real problem. That makes it just a huge, substantial problem. And, in the case of this client of ours, this new client. They didn't do anything wrong, particularly, right. They weren't protected. But, the Chinese got into the accountant's system and then went after all of their clients. Now, we have another case where we're expert witnesses and this one is an interesting one, as well. Its kind of similar guess what they are, they are an outsourced IT provider. And again, I'm not naming names here, because there's lawsuits pending, as you might imagine. Then, in fact, as I mentioned, we are involved in a case where we are witnesses. So I am and helping with

Craig Peterson  12:02
with an insurance company in this case, because there's insurance claims.

Craig Peterson  12:05
So, they had an outsourced IT firm, and the outsourced IT firm was not doing their job. and was not keeping the security up to date. So, who's responsible then? Is the company that got hacked responsible? Because their systems weren't up to date. Or is the assumption that the outsourced IT provider was keeping things up to date. Is that good enough? And that's again, what the courts are going to have to decide. Because they're looking at the contracts, okay, the agreements. Were the people involved up to date? Were they doing their job under the contract? And, I've seen this also when it comes to break-fix shops. And the break-fix shop is where you call when something breaks. So, they don't have to keep anything up to date. They have no obligation to do the software updates. Or to keep an eye on the logs, right. Because all they do is respond. You call them, they respond. They'll show up. They'll fix a hard drive or a monitor. They'll give you something. Maybe they'll help you install some software. But, they have absolutely no duty to respond. But, now we're getting Homeland Security telling us that these companies, that I have seen hacked over the last two months, myself, because we've picked up new clients that have been hacked, right. These companies are the ones under direct assault and that's a very, very bad thing. Something I think we need to really pay attention to if you're interested I have

Craig Peterson  13:48
business process agreement, that I will be glad to send you. I've had it for and I give it away for some of the bonuses and some of the webinars that I do. But it if you reach out to me, you can just send email to me at Craig Peterson dot com or text me at 855-385-5553, I will send you a copy, just a sample, you have to take it to your lawyer, right like all contracts, but a sample agreement that

Craig Peterson  14:17
you

Craig Peterson  14:18
can put in place with your managed security provider, or your managed services provider, or your break-fix shop. Whatever it might be. So, that they now have responsibility and they know it. And you have a contract that says that they are responsible for keeping your systems safe. Because it's getting really bad, and when you've got Department of Homeland Security coming out, right now, with a statement. This is DHS official, Christopher Krebs, these cyber threat actors are still active, and we strongly encourage our partners and government and industry to work together to defend against this

Craig Peterson  14:57
threat.

Craig Peterson  14:58
I can tell you now unfortunately that the Chinese are back. We've seen a huge pickup and activity over the last year and a half. There's there's just all kinds of great quotes. And, of course, in some of the FBI Infraguard webinars I've been holding, we've been talking about cybersecurity 2.0 and even 3.0 and what you have to do in this day and age. And, I know, I hate to have to tell you this stuff because I know you're trying to run your business. I see it all the time. I'm trying to run my business, right. And, I was trying to run my business. I thought I was doing fine. I thought that I was secure enough. I helped, remember, I helped to develop the internet, right. These protocols I implemented for companies for major firms, AT&T, NCR, RCA Astro Space, I've had all kinds of clients over the years. Digital Equipment Corporation, of course, HP client, USAA, all of these guys, right. So, here I am thinking I know what I'm doing. I've got the anti-virus up to date, I'm all set and I got hacked. Now, for me, this was 20 years ago. But I've paid close attention to it ever since then. And actually, it's more than 20 years ago now 25 years ago.

Craig Peterson  16:15
And, I understand that you think you're good enough, but I doubt you are. So, pay good attention. If you want a copy of that business process outsourcing agreement, let me know glad to send to you. You know, I'm not going to charge you for something I found, that I thought it is worth sharing. But, I'd be glad to let you know about that. Also, want to mention that I am doing webinars this coming week public ones, I'm doing one for the FBI Infragard as well, which is not public, this week. But a public webinar where we are going to talk more about ransomware about solutions. I'm going to do some serious training, no credit card required. I'm not charging for this. This is not a big sales pitch. In fact, I'm not even going to make an offer. So, it's content rich. And the way to get in signed up for that is to go to Craig Peterson dot com, and we will be more than glad to sign you up. You will love it. We've had tons of great feedback from people about these webinars. So, what's next when it comes to Wi-Fi. We've talked a little bit about what's next when it comes to our cell services. But, man are there gonna be some changes next year,

Craig Peterson  17:31
We've got five G LTE that's hitting the streets, we've got a big fight between all of the major carriers, who's going to win. We've got attempted mergers going on so that they can afford to do these massive rollouts of Five G. Well 5G is the next evolution, here of LTE. And, it's going to be amazing, because you're going to have incredible

Craig Peterson  17:59
coverage.

Craig Peterson  18:01
Incredible speeds. Most people will probably just get rid of their cable modems, frankly. And, switch over to this, if you're in, you know, suburbia, or obviously the city. Cause it's going to be so cheap and so fast. Well, we've got a new version of Wi-Fi coming out too, and that's going to help the cable companies maybe, survive. The problem, The biggest problem, that we're trying to fix in both cases with the new Wi-Fi and with the new five G LTE on our phones, is that we have a ton of new devices getting introduced. We're talking about millions of devices a day, sometimes. Think about it, I I ordered some light bulbs from Amazon that are Wi-Fi connected. Now in my home and in my office, I have an IoT network. I have a network specifically dedicated to all of these Internet of Things devices where it's heavily monitored, heavily controlled, where they can go and has no access to anything else, right. But, I do this professionally. You as a home user, right, you're not a professional, you're a small business, you're not a security professional, your obviously your professional what you do, you wouldn't have a small business. But, you should have this. But you know, frankly, I'm not expecting you to have this. But, they're trying to solve the problem we've got too many devices. And a lot of these devices don't need a lot of bandwidth. But they need bandwidth, often. And then we also have a lot of devices require, a lot, of bandwidth. Think about the big users on the internet. We're talking about Netflix. Most of the time, Netflix is the number one user of bandwidth on the internet. I read a book, written by, I forget what her name is, she was one of the head people, C-level, over at Netflix. And, and they came to realize, whoa, we're going to be using one-fifth of the internet's bandwidth. And it just kind of drove home how popular the company was. Of course, now it's one half or even more. So, we have the mix of devices, that one a lot of bandwidth while you're streaming a movie or video on YouTube, or you're watching one of my training programs, right. Or, you have devices like clothing or light bulbs that needed to connect to need to have, you know, some activity, but there are a lot of them. And, 5g is where it's at when it comes to the cell network. So, Wi-Fi has to compete. And, I love the version number games, right? Oh, my phone's better. Because it's a Samsung eight versus seven and an eight though it isn't as good as an iPhone 10. Because 10 is a higher number, right. So, they all have to play with these numbers and Wi-Fi over the years, if you remember and boy do I remember because I've been using it since day one. We started with 802 11

Craig Peterson  20:59
A. Then we went to, what was it it was B, and then we moved from be on to N. We have AX,  AC, all of these different Wi-Fi standards. And today 802 11 AC is the standard. And it's quite fast. But it's going to be nothing like what's next. So what they've done is they've changed the nomenclature around the current Wi-Fi standard 802 11 AC is going to be called Wi-Fi five. The previous standard which 802 11 N is going to become Wi-Fi four, etc., etc. So, you're going to start seeing new logos as well. So you know, the little Wi-Fi and logo almost everybody uses. And that's those concentric circles you see one-quarter of that right like a slice of the pie, one-quarter of the pie. That's going to change it's still going to be that corner of the pie. But it's going to have a number on it. So it's gonna say six or five or four. And, that's going to make it easy for you to spot what kind of digital connection you have to the Wi-Fi network. Now they're already talking about the devices are going to be supported on this. And one of the reasons is having to introduce this is, remember I mentioned Netflix. Well Netflix streaming at 1080P, which is high def, is bad enough. But think about the new 8k video that's out right now. 8k video streaming, that is nuts. We're talking about support for transport rates that just blow everything out of the air. Right now get it out of the air Wi-Fi. So, what they're doing is they're taking the bands that are already allotted to them the 2.4 gigahertz band where they will have four streams available at 1.1 gigabits and the five gigahertz band where they think they're going to be able to have about 8 five gigabit streams, isn't that amazing. And, the technologies redefining the usage and what they do with collisions and things. And they're working on refining it before the full launch next year. But, it looks like they may be able to get 10 gigabits worth of speed out of the Wi-Fi. That is huge. When you think of most people aren't even getting 50 megabits, nowadays. So, it's going to require more electricity. It's going to hit on your battery, as well. If you're using these new standards, Wi-Fi six, for instance, even though it has improved efficiency.

Craig Peterson  23:41
If you are streaming real high bandwidth you're going to be using more battery. But, if you are content with watching videos on your iPad at the same data rate at the same quality they are today. You will find that you will actually be saving on battery life you'll save a little bit on your electric bill. But, it's going to be interesting because Wi-Fi six is it hasn't yet been finalized, we'll we'll keep an eye on this for you, as we continue to, you know to move ahead in technology and that's what the show is all about.

Craig Peterson  24:15
Wow, we are drawing quickly to an end of today's show you're listening to Craig Peterson and of course this is Tech Talk we've been on the air now for more than 20 years, as well long time eh. We really appreciate all of our listeners and we appreciate the listeners that right in a little note of support to the stations that were aired on it really does help a lot to hear how much you guys appreciate it. And I love to hear myself just a note to me at Craig Peterson dot com. I love to hear what it is you enjoy about the show. What you're learning. What you'd like to hear more about.  And, a lot of people just say, hey Craig, you you've been great at selecting the topics just keep it up, right. You're so much ahead of anything else that they're listening to or reading. So, I appreciate those, as well, because it lets me know that I'm doing the right thing, frankly. But we've got a couple more things we need to watch out for. First of all, your frequent flyer miles are on the target of hackers, out there right now. Thousands, In fact, hundreds of thousands of points and thousands of accounts are currently on sale. Delta sky miles. British Airways are the most commonly listed and these are being stolen. So, for instance, you can find out there on the dark web, right now. A hundred-thousand British Airways points for 34 euros. You can get 200,000 somebody selling them for 45 bucks. British Airways executive club 100,000 miles for 884. So, the prices vary dramatically. But just want to let you know you've got to protect your frequent flyer miles. And then that means shred your boarding pass after a flight. Don't ever post a photo of your boarding pass online. I had a really interesting webinar for the FBI Infraguard and it was all about these people that are making threats and then they post their their picture of the game, right. So, the threats against maybe the Commissioner of the NFL or someone else that's going to be at the game and they post a picture of their ticket and of course, again, track that way. But keep an eye on your accounts. The White House is calling on Google to abandon their project. Did you know Google is in the process right now of making the search engine for the Communist Chinese people. People's Liberation Army? That is going to be used in China and allows the government to track everything everyone's searching for? What they're saying online. It apparently even goes as far as to tie people's searches and a website visit back to their phone number in China. So, that is very, very scary. 1984, totally here in China. And Google's doing it. They won't provide technology to our military but they'll sure as heck provided to the communist government. I don't get it two face, two face. So, more articles you'll see up on my website. I could ruin your business, right now. This is a sim jacking. We actually have a recording of it. You can listen to what these people are doing. American Express card used to pay $39,000. It just goes on and on DNA databases being used to track you down even if you don't have your DNA filed. And I'm sorry I didn't get to this point you have to read it online. Craig Peterson dot com does turning off your PC every night make it last longer. We've got the answers from the experts Craig Peterson dot com and join me next week for my webinar. Again all of that up and Craig Peterson dot com. A webinar its open, no charge. No credit card. We're going to teach you more about what's happening with ransomware, business email compromise, and the hackers take care we'll chat with you next week.

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Airing date: 10/20/2018

Chinese Hackers, DNA Databases, New Wi-Fi Standards, Google in bed with the Chinese and more

Craig Peterson: Hey, Good Morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here every Saturday about the same time. So, I hope you continue to join me. We're going to be talking about some of the technology that's going to influence you, the movers and shakers, as it were in the technology field. And, there are quite a few of them. Things keep changing all the time. In fact, today we are going to be talking about the next big change in Wi-Fi. You know, we've talked about the new fifth-generation LTE for our phones before. This is huge. We've got two new targets for hackers, two new big ones, will be talking about today. And, that includes anybody who uses outsourced IT vendors. Yes, indeed, we'll be talking about that. In fact, that article both of those should be in your newsletter that you got this morning. If you didn't get it, make sure you subscribe. Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. We've got a really kind of an interesting turn around here for Google and the white house when it comes to China. Yeah, is Google two-faced will no that, that's not possible. Turns out maybe they are. DNA databases. I know a lot of people who have done DNA research, they've submitted their DNA. And I know many people who refuse to, of course, we just had DNA in the news with Senator Elizabeth Warren and her claim to having Native American ancestry. Turns out she has less Native American ancestry than the average European American. I thought that was pretty funny. But, even if you did not submit your DNA to one of these sites, they can probably track you down. This is interesting, almost any European American now can be identified by their DNA, even if, they didn't put it into one of these DNA databanks. How's that even possible? So we'll talk about that. And, we are finally going to put the nail in the coffin. Well, maybe? About your PC. Does turn it off at night? Make it last longer. Boy have I had a lot of discussions about that over the years with clients and friends and employees. So, we'll get right down to the bottom. We've got answers from six of the top manufacturers of computers. And, we will discuss what they had to say about our devices. Should we be turning them off? And, you know, I kind of wonder, do they have a bias, right? Are they going to tell us the wrong thing so, that our computers break more quickly? Hmm, interesting question, isn't it? Anyhow, Welcome. Welcome. Craig Peterson. And of course, this is Tech Talk. So getting into this, we'll start with China, of course, Communist China, Red China, whatever you might want to call it is very central government controlled. I think most people know that. I kind of wonder about some of the younger kids. It seemed to think that just this panacea, it's a democracy where 98% of the people vote, but that's not this show. But we do know that China has been very active militarily. Their main goal of the People's Liberation Army, when it comes to conquering another country, right now, seems to be cyber warfare. It's something that they can do, inexpensively. It's unlikely that they would lose lives, in the process. And, they're also using their cyber warfare technologies in order to make some bucks. Yes, indeed, China is hacking. Now, I told you about a client that we picked up here just a few weeks ago, who lost $180,000 Right from the bank account. Stolen right out of that. As part of the business email compromise, The FBI is telling us has yielded 12 billion plus dollars to hackers. Money, real money, okay. This is not, "Oh, 12  billion in lost productivity". And, you say, "Well, how do you figure that out"? Is that kind of like, wait a minute now, 20% of our employees are out sick on Fridays. So, there must be something going on? Well, but you do the math. Okay. 20% on Friday? Well, Friday is 20% of a work week. Okay. So there's, there's the math that that used right in the statistics, damn statistics and lies. And then there's a math that in this case, means $12 billion stolen from

Craig Peterson  4:31
companies.

Craig Peterson  4:32
And, I know companies where this has happened to, right here. And when you're talking about $12 billion stolen in the last 24 months,

Craig Peterson  4:41
we're talking about companies, all over the place, cause that's a lot of money. And, in this particular case, hundred $180,000 was their operating capital all gone, overnight. So, they thought it was a Chinese hacker. The police investigated found it was a Chinese hacker. So, they flew over to China to file police papers, which they did. And, of course, nothing happened, nothing's going to happen. It's impossible to get any of that money back. Well, the US government on Wednesday warned that there's a hacking group

Craig Peterson  5:18
that's known by the name cloud Hopper, and they are attacking firms

Craig Peterson  5:26
in the United States. But, they're specifically launching attacks against one type of firm.

Craig Peterson  5:31
Now, I've had a hard time in and I'd love it. If you'd help me with this. You can just text me directly 855-385-5553 with your answer, cause I'd love to hear from you.

Craig Peterson  5:44
But

Craig Peterson  5:44
the specific type of firm I look at my customers and my customers have tended over the last 30 years to be smaller companies that have grown. And they've grown to the point where they're IT their information technology. isn't enough for non-professional to handle, but they can't really afford to hire the right kind of person. And, of course, in this day and age, it's impossible for a small or medium company to hire someone that really understands security. It's changing daily, it's just, it's crazy. So, what do you call a company like that, you know, the mid-tier, where it used to be that the office manager would bring in her husband and kid to do some work on the network. Install a new little firewall, they went down to staples, they bought a switch, but now they're too big, they've had problems. Maybe they got sacked with ransomware, and they realize they need more help. So, it's kind of I always thought a "tweener", right? It's a 'Tweenie" company. But I guess, you know, that kind of sounds negative, doesn't it? Because that's like a “tweenager”, somebody who's not quite a teenager. What is that? Like, the 12-11-year-olds? They're tweens. Not quite teens yet. And so they're not quite at the point where they can have their own professional IT staff, but they kind of need them, what would you call that? I'd love to hear from you. I'm trying to figure out how, how, how, what, what to call those types of companies.

Craig Peterson  7:13
And, when we're talking about that, and that type of a company we're talking about someone

Craig Peterson  7:20
that typically outsources to what's known in the industry as a managed services provider. And, that's what we've been doing since the early 90s. Since 91, we've been doing managed security services and managed Computer Services. And that's where I think they fit. You've got the small company, they're too big for, you know, Uncle Jack to come in and help them anymore, or the nieces and nephews. They need more than that, but they can't really afford a professional. And, in this day and age, there's no way you can get a professional you might think you are but you can't afford them. Because true professional now was going for well north of $100,000. 120

Craig Peterson  8:05
and $180,000 a year. So, they turn to companies like mine. Managed security services, or just straight Managed services. And, these companies come in and they help with figuring out what computers do you need, you need to do an upgrade, they'll fix something that's wrong. And, hopefully, they'll manage the security by getting into the computers and messing with them, as needed, doing the updates, doing the changeover into the new security software, right all of that sort of stuff. Well think about those companies here for just a second and I'm talking about these managed security companies. The outsourced IT people. Well, the Department of Homeland Security issued a technical alert saying that this group from China is engaged in cyber espionage and theft of intellectual

Craig Peterson  8:59
property

Craig Peterson  9:01
against these outsourced IT providers. A very, very big deal. Two prominent US cybersecurity companies are warning, that the Chinese have been caught by them hacking, actively trying to get in and that had surged, and that this whole thing is part of the escalating trade war between Beijing and Washington. So, what this means is, your managed services provider your outsourced IT company is being attacked and maybe even hacked. And what does that mean to you? Well, think about what they do for you. You call them up and they hop on your computer, right? We do it all the time for our clients. That means they have access to your network, your outsourced IT guys have access your network, right. They have access to you a file server. They might have the master administration passwords for that file server. They have full access to your network.

Craig Peterson  10:02
So, why wouldn't China try and hack

Craig Peterson  10:05
these managed services providers? Why wouldn't China try and hack these IT providers? This is a very big deal for them because then they get access to all of the companies that work with that managed IT, provider. Do you see where this is going? You see the problem.

Craig Peterson  10:23
Now

Craig Peterson  10:24
I mentioned this company that had lost $180,000, it was stolen and it's gone in 90 seconds. It's just its toast. Right? It is completely gone. So, I mentioned them and think about this for a second, How did they get into their bank account?

Craig Peterson  10:42
Well, although, this company security was abysmal, as most smaller companies are. They got their information stolen via their accountant.

Craig Peterson  10:55
Now an accountant, in this case, it's very similar to an outsourced IT provider, isn't it. The accountant had all of their banking information, right. All of their tax returns. Had access to all of this. That makes it a real problem. That makes it just a huge, substantial problem. And, in the case of this client of ours, this new client. They didn't do anything wrong, particularly, right. They weren't protected. But, the Chinese got into the accountant's system and then went after all of their clients. Now, we have another case where we're expert witnesses and this one is an interesting one, as well. Its kind of similar guess what they are, they are an outsourced IT provider. And again, I'm not naming names here, because there's lawsuits pending, as you might imagine. Then, in fact, as I mentioned, we are involved in a case where we are witnesses. So I am and helping with

Craig Peterson  12:02
with an insurance company in this case, because there's insurance claims.

Craig Peterson  12:05
So, they had an outsourced IT firm, and the outsourced IT firm was not doing their job. and was not keeping the security up to date. So, who's responsible then? Is the company that got hacked responsible? Because their systems weren't up to date. Or is the assumption that the outsourced IT provider was keeping things up to date. Is that good enough? And that's again, what the courts are going to have to decide. Because they're looking at the contracts, okay, the agreements. Were the people involved up to date? Were they doing their job under the contract? And, I've seen this also when it comes to break-fix shops. And the break-fix shop is where you call when something breaks. So, they don't have to keep anything up to date. They have no obligation to do the software updates. Or to keep an eye on the logs, right. Because all they do is respond. You call them, they respond. They'll show up. They'll fix a hard drive or a monitor. They'll give you something. Maybe they'll help you install some software. But, they have absolutely no duty to respond. But, now we're getting Homeland Security telling us that these companies, that I have seen hacked over the last two months, myself, because we've picked up new clients that have been hacked, right. These companies are the ones under direct assault and that's a very, very bad thing. Something I think we need to really pay attention to if you're interested I have

Craig Peterson  13:48
business process agreement, that I will be glad to send you. I've had it for and I give it away for some of the bonuses and some of the webinars that I do. But it if you reach out to me, you can just send email to me at Craig Peterson dot com or text me at 855-385-5553, I will send you a copy, just a sample, you have to take it to your lawyer, right like all contracts, but a sample agreement that

Craig Peterson  14:17
you

Craig Peterson  14:18
can put in place with your managed security provider, or your managed services provider, or your break-fix shop. Whatever it might be. So, that they now have responsibility and they know it. And you have a contract that says that they are responsible for keeping your systems safe. Because it's getting really bad, and when you've got Department of Homeland Security coming out, right now, with a statement. This is DHS official, Christopher Krebs, these cyber threat actors are still active, and we strongly encourage our partners and government and industry to work together to defend against this

Craig Peterson  14:57
threat.

Craig Peterson  14:58
I can tell you now unfortunately that the Chinese are back. We've seen a huge pickup and activity over the last year and a half. There's there's just all kinds of great quotes. And, of course, in some of the FBI Infraguard webinars I've been holding, we've been talking about cybersecurity 2.0 and even 3.0 and what you have to do in this day and age. And, I know, I hate to have to tell you this stuff because I know you're trying to run your business. I see it all the time. I'm trying to run my business, right. And, I was trying to run my business. I thought I was doing fine. I thought that I was secure enough. I helped, remember, I helped to develop the internet, right. These protocols I implemented for companies for major firms, AT&T, NCR, RCA Astro Space, I've had all kinds of clients over the years. Digital Equipment Corporation, of course, HP client, USAA, all of these guys, right. So, here I am thinking I know what I'm doing. I've got the anti-virus up to date, I'm all set and I got hacked. Now, for me, this was 20 years ago. But I've paid close attention to it ever since then. And actually, it's more than 20 years ago now 25 years ago.

Craig Peterson  16:15
And, I understand that you think you're good enough, but I doubt you are. So, pay good attention. If you want a copy of that business process outsourcing agreement, let me know glad to send to you. You know, I'm not going to charge you for something I found, that I thought it is worth sharing. But, I'd be glad to let you know about that. Also, want to mention that I am doing webinars this coming week public ones, I'm doing one for the FBI Infragard as well, which is not public, this week. But a public webinar where we are going to talk more about ransomware about solutions. I'm going to do some serious training, no credit card required. I'm not charging for this. This is not a big sales pitch. In fact, I'm not even going to make an offer. So, it's content rich. And the way to get in signed up for that is to go to Craig Peterson dot com, and we will be more than glad to sign you up. You will love it. We've had tons of great feedback from people about these webinars. So, what's next when it comes to Wi-Fi. We've talked a little bit about what's next when it comes to our cell services. But, man are there gonna be some changes next year,

Craig Peterson  17:31
We've got five G LTE that's hitting the streets, we've got a big fight between all of the major carriers, who's going to win. We've got attempted mergers going on so that they can afford to do these massive rollouts of Five G. Well 5G is the next evolution, here of LTE. And, it's going to be amazing, because you're going to have incredible

Craig Peterson  17:59
coverage.

Craig Peterson  18:01
Incredible speeds. Most people will probably just get rid of their cable modems, frankly. And, switch over to this, if you're in, you know, suburbia, or obviously the city. Cause it's going to be so cheap and so fast. Well, we've got a new version of Wi-Fi coming out too, and that's going to help the cable companies maybe, survive. The problem, The biggest problem, that we're trying to fix in both cases with the new Wi-Fi and with the new five G LTE on our phones, is that we have a ton of new devices getting introduced. We're talking about millions of devices a day, sometimes. Think about it, I I ordered some light bulbs from Amazon that are Wi-Fi connected. Now in my home and in my office, I have an IoT network. I have a network specifically dedicated to all of these Internet of Things devices where it's heavily monitored, heavily controlled, where they can go and has no access to anything else, right. But, I do this professionally. You as a home user, right, you're not a professional, you're a small business, you're not a security professional, your obviously your professional what you do, you wouldn't have a small business. But, you should have this. But you know, frankly, I'm not expecting you to have this. But, they're trying to solve the problem we've got too many devices. And a lot of these devices don't need a lot of bandwidth. But they need bandwidth, often. And then we also have a lot of devices require, a lot, of bandwidth. Think about the big users on the internet. We're talking about Netflix. Most of the time, Netflix is the number one user of bandwidth on the internet. I read a book, written by, I forget what her name is, she was one of the head people, C-level, over at Netflix. And, and they came to realize, whoa, we're going to be using one-fifth of the internet's bandwidth. And it just kind of drove home how popular the company was. Of course, now it's one half or even more. So, we have the mix of devices, that one a lot of bandwidth while you're streaming a movie or video on YouTube, or you're watching one of my training programs, right. Or, you have devices like clothing or light bulbs that needed to connect to need to have, you know, some activity, but there are a lot of them. And, 5g is where it's at when it comes to the cell network. So, Wi-Fi has to compete. And, I love the version number games, right? Oh, my phone's better. Because it's a Samsung eight versus seven and an eight though it isn't as good as an iPhone 10. Because 10 is a higher number, right. So, they all have to play with these numbers and Wi-Fi over the years, if you remember and boy do I remember because I've been using it since day one. We started with 802 11

Craig Peterson  20:59
A. Then we went to, what was it it was B, and then we moved from be on to N. We have AX,  AC, all of these different Wi-Fi standards. And today 802 11 AC is the standard. And it's quite fast. But it's going to be nothing like what's next. So what they've done is they've changed the nomenclature around the current Wi-Fi standard 802 11 AC is going to be called Wi-Fi five. The previous standard which 802 11 N is going to become Wi-Fi four, etc., etc. So, you're going to start seeing new logos as well. So you know, the little Wi-Fi and logo almost everybody uses. And that's those concentric circles you see one-quarter of that right like a slice of the pie, one-quarter of the pie. That's going to change it's still going to be that corner of the pie. But it's going to have a number on it. So it's gonna say six or five or four. And, that's going to make it easy for you to spot what kind of digital connection you have to the Wi-Fi network. Now they're already talking about the devices are going to be supported on this. And one of the reasons is having to introduce this is, remember I mentioned Netflix. Well Netflix streaming at 1080P, which is high def, is bad enough. But think about the new 8k video that's out right now. 8k video streaming, that is nuts. We're talking about support for transport rates that just blow everything out of the air. Right now get it out of the air Wi-Fi. So, what they're doing is they're taking the bands that are already allotted to them the 2.4 gigahertz band where they will have four streams available at 1.1 gigabits and the five gigahertz band where they think they're going to be able to have about 8 five gigabit streams, isn't that amazing. And, the technologies redefining the usage and what they do with collisions and things. And they're working on refining it before the full launch next year. But, it looks like they may be able to get 10 gigabits worth of speed out of the Wi-Fi. That is huge. When you think of most people aren't even getting 50 megabits, nowadays. So, it's going to require more electricity. It's going to hit on your battery, as well. If you're using these new standards, Wi-Fi six, for instance, even though it has improved efficiency.

Craig Peterson  23:41
If you are streaming real high bandwidth you're going to be using more battery. But, if you are content with watching videos on your iPad at the same data rate at the same quality they are today. You will find that you will actually be saving on battery life you'll save a little bit on your electric bill. But, it's going to be interesting because Wi-Fi six is it hasn't yet been finalized, we'll we'll keep an eye on this for you, as we continue to, you know to move ahead in technology and that's what the show is all about.

Craig Peterson  24:15
Wow, we are drawing quickly to an end of today's show you're listening to Craig Peterson and of course this is Tech Talk we've been on the air now for more than 20 years, as well long time eh. We really appreciate all of our listeners and we appreciate the listeners that right in a little note of support to the stations that were aired on it really does help a lot to hear how much you guys appreciate it. And I love to hear myself just a note to me at Craig Peterson dot com. I love to hear what it is you enjoy about the show. What you're learning. What you'd like to hear more about.  And, a lot of people just say, hey Craig, you you've been great at selecting the topics just keep it up, right. You're so much ahead of anything else that they're listening to or reading. So, I appreciate those, as well, because it lets me know that I'm doing the right thing, frankly. But we've got a couple more things we need to watch out for. First of all, your frequent flyer miles are on the target of hackers, out there right now. Thousands, In fact, hundreds of thousands of points and thousands of accounts are currently on sale. Delta sky miles. British Airways are the most commonly listed and these are being stolen. So, for instance, you can find out there on the dark web, right now. A hundred-thousand British Airways points for 34 euros. You can get 200,000 somebody selling them for 45 bucks. British Airways executive club 100,000 miles for 884. So, the prices vary dramatically. But just want to let you know you've got to protect your frequent flyer miles. And then that means shred your boarding pass after a flight. Don't ever post a photo of your boarding pass online. I had a really interesting webinar for the FBI Infraguard and it was all about these people that are making threats and then they post their their picture of the game, right. So, the threats against maybe the Commissioner of the NFL or someone else that's going to be at the game and they post a picture of their ticket and of course, again, track that way. But keep an eye on your accounts. The White House is calling on Google to abandon their project. Did you know Google is in the process right now of making the search engine for the Communist Chinese people. People's Liberation Army? That is going to be used in China and allows the government to track everything everyone's searching for? What they're saying online. It apparently even goes as far as to tie people's searches and a website visit back to their phone number in China. So, that is very, very scary. 1984, totally here in China. And Google's doing it. They won't provide technology to our military but they'll sure as heck provided to the communist government. I don't get it two face, two face. So, more articles you'll see up on my website. I could ruin your business, right now. This is a sim jacking. We actually have a recording of it. You can listen to what these people are doing. American Express card used to pay $39,000. It just goes on and on DNA databases being used to track you down even if you don't have your DNA filed. And I'm sorry I didn't get to this point you have to read it online. Craig Peterson dot com does turning off your PC every night make it last longer. We've got the answers from the experts Craig Peterson dot com and join me next week for my webinar. Again all of that up and Craig Peterson dot com. A webinar its open, no charge. No credit card. We're going to teach you more about what's happening with ransomware, business email compromise, and the hackers take care we'll chat with you next week.

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Airing date: 10/17/2018

Android vs iPhone For Gifts - How Much Security Do You Need - Breach vs Theft - Who Has Liability

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Good morning Craig Peterson here this morning with Ken and Matt we talked about well two different things first of all and these are different things too because you know oftentimes between all of those radio shows online there's some overlap but no overlap this morning so with Ken and Matt I got into some of the security stuff that we should be concerned about. Ken's gonna be getting a new Apple Watch for Christmas, he said a little earlier on his show. So if you're giving a gift this year, should you be giving Apple Android what's out there? What are the considerations? And then from a legal perspective, this is a different topic, but how should the government be coming down on things like data loss versus vulnerabilities if you have software that could be breached?

Unknown 1:00
Do you have an obligation to tell people that their data might have been breached? Even though there's no evidence that data was actually stolen? It's an interesting question. And it's a kind of a question for the ages. So we get into that as well. This morning. Matt brought that up. So here we go. We Craig Peterson on with Ken and Matt 738 is the time and man is Craig Peterson. He's our tech guru. He joins us every Wednesday at this time to tell us about what is going on in the world of technology around the world. Greg, How are you this morning?

Unknown 1:34
I am doing well. Yeah, what is going on crazy, crazy, crazy

Unknown 1:43
horse faces out there. Just saying.

Unknown 1:46
So I'm

Unknown 1:49
Mr. Peterson. Is it equitable that we can be is everybody going to eventually someday be at no matter what we do? Well, I I kind of say.

Unknown 2:00
So and it's interesting know you're talking about getting the new Apple Watch for for Christmas and and a lot of people of course over the holidays for various celebrations are going to be getting all kinds of new gizmos and gadgets and I cannot emphasize enough and I know Matt you're going to disagree with me on hits at least to some degree but I cannot emphasize enough the importance of trying to keep your information secure all of the data secure and when it comes to devices and security there is no question Apple is it it's where it's at and Google Android it's all well and good but it is not secure not anywhere near as close to Apple's iOS well if that's the case should not beating myself a blackberry I mean

Unknown 2:56
you could go to a feature phone they I think they help

Unknown 3:00
Right. If you really want security, you don't put your data anywhere, right. But you don't put your cursor and it'll, it'll be secure and become the unabomber in the woods somewhere. Just kind of unplug from society. That's my that's my option. That's your

Unknown 3:18
way. Yeah, that's what he did. It was.

Unknown 3:23
It was. Yeah, I was. I was somewhere. Yeah, it was a shack in the woods,

Unknown 3:28
wind and rain. And but that's no way to live. Is it right? It's just, you know, you can't survive today without technology. Which leads us to what Ken was just kind of inferring here, which is that you have to set up everything all of your financial accounts, all of your equipment as though you're going to be hacked because you may have already had your information stolen and then taking a look at what happened here with the experience that was

Unknown 4:00
Very long ago, Facebook, hundreds of thousands of people apparently lost all of their personal information from this Facebook breach from what we're learning here just this week. So it's really good practice, especially if you're a small business person. But you know, heck, if you're a retiree, you've got money and accounts, you've got money, hopefully, and investment accounts of 401k or savings account. So types of accounts, that information is being stolen all the time. We went into a restaurant chain just last week, they asked us to come in and have a look. And they're using Android tablets for all of their orders, right, and to process credit cards, and they've got a whole system set up and it's quote, cloud-based, unquote, point of sale system for restaurants. And so we go in we have a quick look at it. The Android tablets are

Unknown 5:00
are completely wide open. They're in developer mode. They, they have all kinds of different software on there, including the ability to go out on the internet and visit the Facebook page, which apparently when we did a little investigation, some of the servers and even some of the management we're killing and there are cases, known cases by the hundreds or someone who is malicious, puts a little scraper on that machine. And now every credit card fits one. Yeah, it's going up to the cloud. Yeah, it's being processed. Yeah, it's it's secure when it gets to the cloud. But every credit card swipe done, that Android point of sale system was being captured by a little app that was installed on an Android device and all that interaction was stolen. We had locally here where I live in my town a restaurant that was shut down because the police

Unknown 6:00
arrested the manager that a small restaurant right here my hometown, the rest of the manager because that's exactly what they were doing. They were grabbing all of the credit cards they were reusing them, people were seeing charges and to wanna and other places. So we've, we've got to consider that we are under attack. The FBI just last week came up or two weeks ago, I think it was come out with a new announcement saying managed services providers are now becoming the number one target for thieves. So your IT company is the target are they secure this this whole thing, just some simple common sense stuff is going to save you a lot of time. Never ever use Android. Don't use Windows if you can avoid it, which means unfortunately, use Apple I don't own any apples to help Okay, I was on animals born

Unknown 7:00
For three years on their advisory board for three years, maximum term, okay, I'll tell you that but I did it because I wanted to help them improve their products, but

Unknown 7:11
consider that as a business person as a retiree as just a regular homebody. You've got to look at everything from a security standpoint. Because even though Experian can survive a hack, 60% of businesses are going to go out of business. If they're hacked, and you and I have that money stolen, the odds are will never ever get it back. So obviously, I've got my soapbox under me, or is it a stump today, but this is a huge deal. I can I see it all the time, people's lives destroyed.

Unknown 7:47
Speaking of hacks, of course, we're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru Craig when something happens in a company which is what we've seen happen over and over again, whether it's like you know, one of the credit agencies being hacked or you see the day

Unknown 8:00
app get hacked or somebody has a bug somewhere or something happens with a company or tech organization of some kind. What exactly are the rules for telling people about that? I mean, can can realistically, you know, if Facebook got hacked, like it just did, and like if 50 million users had their their, their accounts compromised in some fashion can ever keep that under wraps. Should they ever keep it under wraps? Or what duty do they have to tell us about this kind of thing? Yeah, that's a really good question. Because it's, it's our information, right? It's our lives and you know, what, what do they happen tell us when do they have to tell it to us is really kind of the question and it varies from state to state. And there are some federal laws about it, but there is a big difference between having for instance of vulnerability in your software and having had your systems breached right, so you

Unknown 9:00
Usually the line is, hey, if you know you were breached, you have a duty to report it. And in some cases, you have to report it within 72 hours. Well, Matt, how many businesses know they've been breached? The average time to figure out you've been breached to six months right now. Okay. It's absolutely huge, huge, huge. We had Google Plus Google. Just shut down. Google Plus, you guys. Did either of you ever use Google? I was actually an early adopter plus. No idea what it didn't believe it or not. Yeah, yeah. Well, the thinking back then was, hey, listen, Google's going to do social network it's going to be fake, fake. Fake. Right? And so you tried to do it yeah, I gotta do it. But I started using it early and then I you know, as as the participation in it kind of declines, so did mine But yeah, it's still existed for years afterwards, even though nobody used it. Yeah, it did it and I also was one of the earlier chapters I thought while but just

Unknown 10:00
going to take off is just because it was Google, right? And there was no real engagement there. And my friends weren't really there. So I kind of dropped it. But to your point, man, Google Plus is now get shut down. Because they had a problem with what's called an API, which is what programmers use. This is an application program interface to time to Google Plus. So you could use a developer to develop some software for your Android phone, and you go into that app on your phone, Mac, and you, you now are posting stuff into Google Plus account. Well, that was found out that API was found out to be extremely vulnerable. Now, there were only about 400 people who actually taught a license from Google and might have used the API very few people actually used it. So in that case, we're talking about a half a million users

Unknown 11:00
By the way, Matt back how many people have registered apparently with Google Plus 500,000 people? So you're right. There was like, no engagement, but 500,000 people's data that could have been compromised because of that API. But should that be reported? Should you be told, hey, listen, your data might have been stolen by someone. But we're not sure. So fence the line. That's that's the difficult part. But with technology, the law the rules or regulations always like behind technology and where it's at, and we've got to decide when this is a really big question. When should businesses be reporting Do you report a vulnerability you report an an absolute breach? Do you have a responsibility to be able to tell which consumers what data was stolen? It's it's going to be well before we figure this all out.

Unknown 12:00
Google's case they didn't bother to tell a soul. It was about six months ago when they figured this out. And they, you know, they closed up the whole of six months ago. And now they're shutting the whole thing down. Should they have told us should they have told regulators and Google's attorneys are saying, No, no, no, we didn't need to tell anyone, because we're not certain that there was a breach. We don't know that someone use this extremely vulnerable API to still everybody's information. I don't know, right. I really don't know if the laws that wrap around unauthorized access to user information to personally identifiable information access versus they've actually got it some of them are unclear and the lawyers are certainly coming down on the side of Hey, we don't have to tell nobody unless we know personal data was actually lost.

Unknown 12:56
Our tech guru Craig Peterson joins us every week on Wednesday at 730 and you can go to his website but peterson.com get all the information you don't have to wait till Wednesday just go anytime you want thanks for joining us Craig will talk to you next week

Unknown 13:11
all right Take care guys next

Unknown 13:15
we

Unknown 13:23
I wish I had noticed can make in that squeak sound I would have made a little bit of fun at him and he now take care we'll be back this weekend with my normal radio show as heard on the air am and FM stations carried by I heart Take care. Bye bye.

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Airing date: 10/17/2018

Android vs iPhone For Gifts - How Much Security Do You Need - Breach vs Theft - Who Has Liability

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Good morning Craig Peterson here this morning with Ken and Matt we talked about well two different things first of all and these are different things too because you know oftentimes between all of those radio shows online there's some overlap but no overlap this morning so with Ken and Matt I got into some of the security stuff that we should be concerned about. Ken's gonna be getting a new Apple Watch for Christmas, he said a little earlier on his show. So if you're giving a gift this year, should you be giving Apple Android what's out there? What are the considerations? And then from a legal perspective, this is a different topic, but how should the government be coming down on things like data loss versus vulnerabilities if you have software that could be breached?

Unknown 1:00
Do you have an obligation to tell people that their data might have been breached? Even though there's no evidence that data was actually stolen? It's an interesting question. And it's a kind of a question for the ages. So we get into that as well. This morning. Matt brought that up. So here we go. We Craig Peterson on with Ken and Matt 738 is the time and man is Craig Peterson. He's our tech guru. He joins us every Wednesday at this time to tell us about what is going on in the world of technology around the world. Greg, How are you this morning?

Unknown 1:34
I am doing well. Yeah, what is going on crazy, crazy, crazy

Unknown 1:43
horse faces out there. Just saying.

Unknown 1:46
So I'm

Unknown 1:49
Mr. Peterson. Is it equitable that we can be is everybody going to eventually someday be at no matter what we do? Well, I I kind of say.

Unknown 2:00
So and it's interesting know you're talking about getting the new Apple Watch for for Christmas and and a lot of people of course over the holidays for various celebrations are going to be getting all kinds of new gizmos and gadgets and I cannot emphasize enough and I know Matt you're going to disagree with me on hits at least to some degree but I cannot emphasize enough the importance of trying to keep your information secure all of the data secure and when it comes to devices and security there is no question Apple is it it's where it's at and Google Android it's all well and good but it is not secure not anywhere near as close to Apple's iOS well if that's the case should not beating myself a blackberry I mean

Unknown 2:56
you could go to a feature phone they I think they help

Unknown 3:00
Right. If you really want security, you don't put your data anywhere, right. But you don't put your cursor and it'll, it'll be secure and become the unabomber in the woods somewhere. Just kind of unplug from society. That's my that's my option. That's your

Unknown 3:18
way. Yeah, that's what he did. It was.

Unknown 3:23
It was. Yeah, I was. I was somewhere. Yeah, it was a shack in the woods,

Unknown 3:28
wind and rain. And but that's no way to live. Is it right? It's just, you know, you can't survive today without technology. Which leads us to what Ken was just kind of inferring here, which is that you have to set up everything all of your financial accounts, all of your equipment as though you're going to be hacked because you may have already had your information stolen and then taking a look at what happened here with the experience that was

Unknown 4:00
Very long ago, Facebook, hundreds of thousands of people apparently lost all of their personal information from this Facebook breach from what we're learning here just this week. So it's really good practice, especially if you're a small business person. But you know, heck, if you're a retiree, you've got money and accounts, you've got money, hopefully, and investment accounts of 401k or savings account. So types of accounts, that information is being stolen all the time. We went into a restaurant chain just last week, they asked us to come in and have a look. And they're using Android tablets for all of their orders, right, and to process credit cards, and they've got a whole system set up and it's quote, cloud-based, unquote, point of sale system for restaurants. And so we go in we have a quick look at it. The Android tablets are

Unknown 5:00
are completely wide open. They're in developer mode. They, they have all kinds of different software on there, including the ability to go out on the internet and visit the Facebook page, which apparently when we did a little investigation, some of the servers and even some of the management we're killing and there are cases, known cases by the hundreds or someone who is malicious, puts a little scraper on that machine. And now every credit card fits one. Yeah, it's going up to the cloud. Yeah, it's being processed. Yeah, it's it's secure when it gets to the cloud. But every credit card swipe done, that Android point of sale system was being captured by a little app that was installed on an Android device and all that interaction was stolen. We had locally here where I live in my town a restaurant that was shut down because the police

Unknown 6:00
arrested the manager that a small restaurant right here my hometown, the rest of the manager because that's exactly what they were doing. They were grabbing all of the credit cards they were reusing them, people were seeing charges and to wanna and other places. So we've, we've got to consider that we are under attack. The FBI just last week came up or two weeks ago, I think it was come out with a new announcement saying managed services providers are now becoming the number one target for thieves. So your IT company is the target are they secure this this whole thing, just some simple common sense stuff is going to save you a lot of time. Never ever use Android. Don't use Windows if you can avoid it, which means unfortunately, use Apple I don't own any apples to help Okay, I was on animals born

Unknown 7:00
For three years on their advisory board for three years, maximum term, okay, I'll tell you that but I did it because I wanted to help them improve their products, but

Unknown 7:11
consider that as a business person as a retiree as just a regular homebody. You've got to look at everything from a security standpoint. Because even though Experian can survive a hack, 60% of businesses are going to go out of business. If they're hacked, and you and I have that money stolen, the odds are will never ever get it back. So obviously, I've got my soapbox under me, or is it a stump today, but this is a huge deal. I can I see it all the time, people's lives destroyed.

Unknown 7:47
Speaking of hacks, of course, we're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru Craig when something happens in a company which is what we've seen happen over and over again, whether it's like you know, one of the credit agencies being hacked or you see the day

Unknown 8:00
app get hacked or somebody has a bug somewhere or something happens with a company or tech organization of some kind. What exactly are the rules for telling people about that? I mean, can can realistically, you know, if Facebook got hacked, like it just did, and like if 50 million users had their their, their accounts compromised in some fashion can ever keep that under wraps. Should they ever keep it under wraps? Or what duty do they have to tell us about this kind of thing? Yeah, that's a really good question. Because it's, it's our information, right? It's our lives and you know, what, what do they happen tell us when do they have to tell it to us is really kind of the question and it varies from state to state. And there are some federal laws about it, but there is a big difference between having for instance of vulnerability in your software and having had your systems breached right, so you

Unknown 9:00
Usually the line is, hey, if you know you were breached, you have a duty to report it. And in some cases, you have to report it within 72 hours. Well, Matt, how many businesses know they've been breached? The average time to figure out you've been breached to six months right now. Okay. It's absolutely huge, huge, huge. We had Google Plus Google. Just shut down. Google Plus, you guys. Did either of you ever use Google? I was actually an early adopter plus. No idea what it didn't believe it or not. Yeah, yeah. Well, the thinking back then was, hey, listen, Google's going to do social network it's going to be fake, fake. Fake. Right? And so you tried to do it yeah, I gotta do it. But I started using it early and then I you know, as as the participation in it kind of declines, so did mine But yeah, it's still existed for years afterwards, even though nobody used it. Yeah, it did it and I also was one of the earlier chapters I thought while but just

Unknown 10:00
going to take off is just because it was Google, right? And there was no real engagement there. And my friends weren't really there. So I kind of dropped it. But to your point, man, Google Plus is now get shut down. Because they had a problem with what's called an API, which is what programmers use. This is an application program interface to time to Google Plus. So you could use a developer to develop some software for your Android phone, and you go into that app on your phone, Mac, and you, you now are posting stuff into Google Plus account. Well, that was found out that API was found out to be extremely vulnerable. Now, there were only about 400 people who actually taught a license from Google and might have used the API very few people actually used it. So in that case, we're talking about a half a million users

Unknown 11:00
By the way, Matt back how many people have registered apparently with Google Plus 500,000 people? So you're right. There was like, no engagement, but 500,000 people's data that could have been compromised because of that API. But should that be reported? Should you be told, hey, listen, your data might have been stolen by someone. But we're not sure. So fence the line. That's that's the difficult part. But with technology, the law the rules or regulations always like behind technology and where it's at, and we've got to decide when this is a really big question. When should businesses be reporting Do you report a vulnerability you report an an absolute breach? Do you have a responsibility to be able to tell which consumers what data was stolen? It's it's going to be well before we figure this all out.

Unknown 12:00
Google's case they didn't bother to tell a soul. It was about six months ago when they figured this out. And they, you know, they closed up the whole of six months ago. And now they're shutting the whole thing down. Should they have told us should they have told regulators and Google's attorneys are saying, No, no, no, we didn't need to tell anyone, because we're not certain that there was a breach. We don't know that someone use this extremely vulnerable API to still everybody's information. I don't know, right. I really don't know if the laws that wrap around unauthorized access to user information to personally identifiable information access versus they've actually got it some of them are unclear and the lawyers are certainly coming down on the side of Hey, we don't have to tell nobody unless we know personal data was actually lost.

Unknown 12:56
Our tech guru Craig Peterson joins us every week on Wednesday at 730 and you can go to his website but peterson.com get all the information you don't have to wait till Wednesday just go anytime you want thanks for joining us Craig will talk to you next week

Unknown 13:11
all right Take care guys next

Unknown 13:15
we

Unknown 13:23
I wish I had noticed can make in that squeak sound I would have made a little bit of fun at him and he now take care we'll be back this weekend with my normal radio show as heard on the air am and FM stations carried by I heart Take care. Bye bye.

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DEEPFAKES 2.0: Computers Can Already Create Convincing, Fake Videos Of Anyone
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Airing date: 10/16/2018

Could Fake Video Start A War - What To Do About Lost Phones

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, good morning, everybody. This is a little late. Sorry yesterday. I had an injury with Jim Polito as I do most Tuesday mornings and we talked about a couple of things. First of all, what are the implications of these newer pieces of software some of them are absolutely free that allow you to manipulate video and manipulated to a degree that you could make a video showing people doing things that they never did and have it be very convincing so I really great, very interesting topic with Jim this yesterday morning. And then we also went into one other topic kind of quickly and that's all about your phone and what to do before and after your phone is stolen. So some really good tips today for everybody whether you're in business or retired, or just a regular old home. Bobby's Oh, you

Unknown 1:00
Here we go with Mr. Polito. Here's the guy who made things like I Heart Radio possible. While because of the internet, he actually wrote code that is still in use today. And I'm talking about our good friend Craig Peterson. Who I just I think I just hung up on guys. I I I really think I just hung up on Craig Peterson. I mean, how do I do that? When you put an idiot in charge? That's what you get. Right, buddy?

Unknown 1:35
You know it. I really have to feel sorry for you. And for so many other people, because it has just gotten way too complicated.

Unknown 1:46
Too bad. It's not complicated. Actually. Smart people like you have made it easier for us user-friendly as they say. And now I just hit the wrong button. And that's all that's all it takes. Greg. That's all well hey, listen.

Unknown 2:00
We've got a lot of stuff to discuss today. And don't forget, folks at the end of this segment, Craig's going to give you a number. If you text my name, you'll get all this information plus more standard data and text rates apply. Craig, I want to talk about this because it is something that scares me in this day and age. I think it's cool. But in terms of fake news, politics,

Unknown 2:24
terrorism,

Unknown 2:27
the deep fakes 2.0 a computer that can already create condensing fake videos of anyone I've heard glenn beck talk about this. And while it is really cool, I mean, in the wrong hands, it could be deadly and I mean that as well. You could take video you could make a video of President Trump burning the Quran and then distribute it.

Unknown 3:00
What kind of an impact would that have around the world? And that's what this computer can do. So why don't we talk about it?

Unknown 3:08
And then and then dropping people into, shall we say, adult material and videos? Explain to us what this is about.

Unknown 3:18
If you think back a little bit, Jim, can you remember Lord of the Rings? Of course. Oh, yeah. Moving. Yeah. Oh, sorry if I read those great popular books when I was in college, but did you ever see behind the scenes that guy that played oh man document for the name of the character the meal or what did he call himself precious? You know, I'm Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Unknown 3:45
Yeah, I know. I know. You're talking about the place. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we're gonna get about a million text. I know. I know we will. But if you saw behind the scenes, there was an actual actor.

Unknown 4:00
Who ate that part made all of the movements and actually of course that the boys and they have those golf balls all over him when they were filming them. Did you see that? Yeah I know that because I was just at the Shriners and they use that same technology you know the suit with the little white golf balls all over it and then you the person moves in that suit and then a computer can analyze that movement or in the case of what they do in movies, then you can have an animated character moving just like a human because you have mapped that human at the Shriners, they use it to help kids with mobility issues and with constructing artificial limbs and things like that. But yeah, so you take something like that. Sure. Ya know, that's something I think we can kind of relate to that yesteryears technology

Unknown 5:00
Nowadays, right? And it's you know, it took them 10s of millions of dollars to to just do that one movie with that, that character moving around in the movie, right and you know it's continually getting better you know there's more animation actors are very concerned that within the next 10 certainly 20 years most of them will be gone. Alec Baldwin won't have a job anymore. It's it's, it's all going to change is going to change in a very big way. Because now there are programs factors deep in some apps that are available that do this type of analysis that used to require those little golf balls on the suits. In other words, they can pick out a face or for instance, you've got a smartphone. Yeah, and you've taken pictures of people. Have you noticed now how there's a little square around people's faces automatically on your smartphone where it is

Unknown 6:00
recognizes that there's a faith there, and then it focuses on that face. That's the type of tech we're talking about. that's available today. It recognizes faces. And it can also recognize movement of faces. The again think of the new Apple iPhone 10 and the ability to use it John Locke the phone. So with these new app, they are able to have very convincing for almost no money, very convincing videos that allow you now to do exactly what you've been talking about this morning on the show, you know, you could put Elizabeth Warren's face on a tribal pile participants and you would not really be able to tell them unless you got right down into it that it wasn't really Elizabeth Warren that had the Indian blooded

Unknown 6:55
yeah and and it'll match the skin tones it'll match the facial expression.

Unknown 7:00
it'll match the body movement and the facial expressions jam that's the magic that's the hardest part of all of this and it's available now you can you can do all of that stuff you can have it done on some of these websites out there like fiber and pay a couple hundred bucks and now you have a convincing video that's going to you know it's not going to convince the guys in the FBI crime lab but it is going to convince the people on you know the six o'clock news yeah and not just the six o'clock news so I could use it against a political enemy but like I said you could use it in an international incident you know remember but Ghazi Hillary claimed it was a video record she was lying but you actually could make a video and you could stir up unrest and a country you could start a war anything it's gonna happen Jim you're right with

Unknown 8:00
Why, you know, it could happen today. This is the type of thing to think about how World War One started, right? We all had alliances all of these countries. Yeah, one lower ranking guy was shot and all of a sudden we are engaged in a world or and you could have convincing videos of the beheading, that didn't even harping right with people involved that weren't anywhere near the site. So today it's people's faces being plopped onto porn actors. And isn't that funny? Yeah, but it's it's a scary bit of technology. And today for you know, $50,000 you could very easily have a video made that's going to convince all but the absolute best tech people in the world that's $50,000 down from what was millions just a few years ago.

Unknown 9:00
Yeah, we're talking with Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru and we'll tell you where you can get all this information at the end.

Unknown 9:11
This is something I wanted to discuss, because it does happen to people frequently losing your phone, and you've got a little tip here on everything you should do before and after you lose your phone. And it happens to all of us.

Unknown 9:31
Yeah,

Unknown 9:33
absolutely true. I've got the article up on my website, but there are about 10 different steps things you need to do before and then after great article up on wired.com. But here's the bottom line you in this day and age you have to assume a couple of things. First of all, you have to assume that you are going to be hacked. Okay.

Unknown 10:00
So when you set up those financial accounts, when you're trying to get your retirement accounts in order, assume that you're going to be hacked or the to have been hacked when you're setting them up. So yeah, same thing with your password your phone, assume that you're going to lose it. So make sure you've got a really great little passcode on that phone. a four digit passcodes. Not enough anymore. Yeah, I use the cloud. It should passcode. Maybe I'm a little paranoid. I don't know. You know, you're you're in the business, you know? Yes, absolutely. And managed services providers, which is what my company does. The FBI just came out and said, We are the number one target because we have access to our clients, competitors, right. Right. So I get to you that I can get to all of your clients. Exactly right. So they're going after me now my business so on our phone we not we have these 12 digit passcodes because

Unknown 11:00
There might be client information on them. Everything on the phone is encrypted. And then on top of had we have everything inside of encrypted falls on our phones and on our computers, and that's something by the way, if you have any personally identifiable information about clients or other thing and you're an accountant or your lawyer or you know, the list goes on and on, you have to have a higher standard or security. So make sure if your phone is going to be lost, and it will be right eventually it's going to be stolen or alive. They can't get into it. And if they do get into it, make sure none of that information is useful at all to the to the bad guy and make sure you have backups. I do not accept my phone to the cloud. I back it up encrypted backup to my local machine so that I have it and I can restore at will and if you have an iPhone make sure you turn on

Unknown 12:00
Find My iPhone, right? Because that lets you remotely wipe your iPhone. And that's frankly, that's a really good thing. Here's the bad guy who has your iPhone sitting there looking at it and all of a sudden it comes up with the Apple logo because it's been completely wipe. There's no way for them to recover it and there's no way for them to use your iPhone without your iCloud password. So it's useless to them. So there's a few real I think, really good tips here. It's going to be lost. Make sure it's secure, and make sure the data on it secure. same trick for your laptop. Yeah, make sure that it's that way. All right, Craig. That was very, very helpful. Very, very helpful. So folks, if you want to get this kind of stuff and you want more and you don't want to be bothered, though, and be tried to be sold something or you don't want to worry about getting hacked is very simple all that you do.

Unknown 13:00
Text My name to this number

Unknown 13:03
855-385-5563. That's 855-385-5553. That's right. Standard data and text rates will apply. But you're gonna love all of the information that you get. Craig, that was a great segment with you really appreciate it. We'll talk to you next week. Hey, thanks, Jim. Bye bye. When we return

Unknown 14:00

Hey, by the way, next week, I'm going to be running webinars on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, open to the general public. I have a closed one for FBI Infragard on Thursday. But Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we're going to be going through that really kind of an assessment here. Where's your business hat? What's your security standards? What should you be doing? So we have all of that up on my website just go to http://craigpeterson.com. You can register at the home page. Take care. Have a great day. And we will be probably putting out two of these today because I already was on the stations up in Maine with Ken and Matt. So we'll probably be talking to you very shortly. Take care.

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DEEPFAKES 2.0: Computers Can Already Create Convincing, Fake Videos Of Anyone
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Airing date: 10/16/2018

Could Fake Video Start A War - What To Do About Lost Phones

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, good morning, everybody. This is a little late. Sorry yesterday. I had an injury with Jim Polito as I do most Tuesday mornings and we talked about a couple of things. First of all, what are the implications of these newer pieces of software some of them are absolutely free that allow you to manipulate video and manipulated to a degree that you could make a video showing people doing things that they never did and have it be very convincing so I really great, very interesting topic with Jim this yesterday morning. And then we also went into one other topic kind of quickly and that's all about your phone and what to do before and after your phone is stolen. So some really good tips today for everybody whether you're in business or retired, or just a regular old home. Bobby's Oh, you

Unknown 1:00
Here we go with Mr. Polito. Here's the guy who made things like I Heart Radio possible. While because of the internet, he actually wrote code that is still in use today. And I'm talking about our good friend Craig Peterson. Who I just I think I just hung up on guys. I I I really think I just hung up on Craig Peterson. I mean, how do I do that? When you put an idiot in charge? That's what you get. Right, buddy?

Unknown 1:35
You know it. I really have to feel sorry for you. And for so many other people, because it has just gotten way too complicated.

Unknown 1:46
Too bad. It's not complicated. Actually. Smart people like you have made it easier for us user-friendly as they say. And now I just hit the wrong button. And that's all that's all it takes. Greg. That's all well hey, listen.

Unknown 2:00
We've got a lot of stuff to discuss today. And don't forget, folks at the end of this segment, Craig's going to give you a number. If you text my name, you'll get all this information plus more standard data and text rates apply. Craig, I want to talk about this because it is something that scares me in this day and age. I think it's cool. But in terms of fake news, politics,

Unknown 2:24
terrorism,

Unknown 2:27
the deep fakes 2.0 a computer that can already create condensing fake videos of anyone I've heard glenn beck talk about this. And while it is really cool, I mean, in the wrong hands, it could be deadly and I mean that as well. You could take video you could make a video of President Trump burning the Quran and then distribute it.

Unknown 3:00
What kind of an impact would that have around the world? And that's what this computer can do. So why don't we talk about it?

Unknown 3:08
And then and then dropping people into, shall we say, adult material and videos? Explain to us what this is about.

Unknown 3:18
If you think back a little bit, Jim, can you remember Lord of the Rings? Of course. Oh, yeah. Moving. Yeah. Oh, sorry if I read those great popular books when I was in college, but did you ever see behind the scenes that guy that played oh man document for the name of the character the meal or what did he call himself precious? You know, I'm Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Unknown 3:45
Yeah, I know. I know. You're talking about the place. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we're gonna get about a million text. I know. I know we will. But if you saw behind the scenes, there was an actual actor.

Unknown 4:00
Who ate that part made all of the movements and actually of course that the boys and they have those golf balls all over him when they were filming them. Did you see that? Yeah I know that because I was just at the Shriners and they use that same technology you know the suit with the little white golf balls all over it and then you the person moves in that suit and then a computer can analyze that movement or in the case of what they do in movies, then you can have an animated character moving just like a human because you have mapped that human at the Shriners, they use it to help kids with mobility issues and with constructing artificial limbs and things like that. But yeah, so you take something like that. Sure. Ya know, that's something I think we can kind of relate to that yesteryears technology

Unknown 5:00
Nowadays, right? And it's you know, it took them 10s of millions of dollars to to just do that one movie with that, that character moving around in the movie, right and you know it's continually getting better you know there's more animation actors are very concerned that within the next 10 certainly 20 years most of them will be gone. Alec Baldwin won't have a job anymore. It's it's, it's all going to change is going to change in a very big way. Because now there are programs factors deep in some apps that are available that do this type of analysis that used to require those little golf balls on the suits. In other words, they can pick out a face or for instance, you've got a smartphone. Yeah, and you've taken pictures of people. Have you noticed now how there's a little square around people's faces automatically on your smartphone where it is

Unknown 6:00
recognizes that there's a faith there, and then it focuses on that face. That's the type of tech we're talking about. that's available today. It recognizes faces. And it can also recognize movement of faces. The again think of the new Apple iPhone 10 and the ability to use it John Locke the phone. So with these new app, they are able to have very convincing for almost no money, very convincing videos that allow you now to do exactly what you've been talking about this morning on the show, you know, you could put Elizabeth Warren's face on a tribal pile participants and you would not really be able to tell them unless you got right down into it that it wasn't really Elizabeth Warren that had the Indian blooded

Unknown 6:55
yeah and and it'll match the skin tones it'll match the facial expression.

Unknown 7:00
it'll match the body movement and the facial expressions jam that's the magic that's the hardest part of all of this and it's available now you can you can do all of that stuff you can have it done on some of these websites out there like fiber and pay a couple hundred bucks and now you have a convincing video that's going to you know it's not going to convince the guys in the FBI crime lab but it is going to convince the people on you know the six o'clock news yeah and not just the six o'clock news so I could use it against a political enemy but like I said you could use it in an international incident you know remember but Ghazi Hillary claimed it was a video record she was lying but you actually could make a video and you could stir up unrest and a country you could start a war anything it's gonna happen Jim you're right with

Unknown 8:00
Why, you know, it could happen today. This is the type of thing to think about how World War One started, right? We all had alliances all of these countries. Yeah, one lower ranking guy was shot and all of a sudden we are engaged in a world or and you could have convincing videos of the beheading, that didn't even harping right with people involved that weren't anywhere near the site. So today it's people's faces being plopped onto porn actors. And isn't that funny? Yeah, but it's it's a scary bit of technology. And today for you know, $50,000 you could very easily have a video made that's going to convince all but the absolute best tech people in the world that's $50,000 down from what was millions just a few years ago.

Unknown 9:00
Yeah, we're talking with Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru and we'll tell you where you can get all this information at the end.

Unknown 9:11
This is something I wanted to discuss, because it does happen to people frequently losing your phone, and you've got a little tip here on everything you should do before and after you lose your phone. And it happens to all of us.

Unknown 9:31
Yeah,

Unknown 9:33
absolutely true. I've got the article up on my website, but there are about 10 different steps things you need to do before and then after great article up on wired.com. But here's the bottom line you in this day and age you have to assume a couple of things. First of all, you have to assume that you are going to be hacked. Okay.

Unknown 10:00
So when you set up those financial accounts, when you're trying to get your retirement accounts in order, assume that you're going to be hacked or the to have been hacked when you're setting them up. So yeah, same thing with your password your phone, assume that you're going to lose it. So make sure you've got a really great little passcode on that phone. a four digit passcodes. Not enough anymore. Yeah, I use the cloud. It should passcode. Maybe I'm a little paranoid. I don't know. You know, you're you're in the business, you know? Yes, absolutely. And managed services providers, which is what my company does. The FBI just came out and said, We are the number one target because we have access to our clients, competitors, right. Right. So I get to you that I can get to all of your clients. Exactly right. So they're going after me now my business so on our phone we not we have these 12 digit passcodes because

Unknown 11:00
There might be client information on them. Everything on the phone is encrypted. And then on top of had we have everything inside of encrypted falls on our phones and on our computers, and that's something by the way, if you have any personally identifiable information about clients or other thing and you're an accountant or your lawyer or you know, the list goes on and on, you have to have a higher standard or security. So make sure if your phone is going to be lost, and it will be right eventually it's going to be stolen or alive. They can't get into it. And if they do get into it, make sure none of that information is useful at all to the to the bad guy and make sure you have backups. I do not accept my phone to the cloud. I back it up encrypted backup to my local machine so that I have it and I can restore at will and if you have an iPhone make sure you turn on

Unknown 12:00
Find My iPhone, right? Because that lets you remotely wipe your iPhone. And that's frankly, that's a really good thing. Here's the bad guy who has your iPhone sitting there looking at it and all of a sudden it comes up with the Apple logo because it's been completely wipe. There's no way for them to recover it and there's no way for them to use your iPhone without your iCloud password. So it's useless to them. So there's a few real I think, really good tips here. It's going to be lost. Make sure it's secure, and make sure the data on it secure. same trick for your laptop. Yeah, make sure that it's that way. All right, Craig. That was very, very helpful. Very, very helpful. So folks, if you want to get this kind of stuff and you want more and you don't want to be bothered, though, and be tried to be sold something or you don't want to worry about getting hacked is very simple all that you do.

Unknown 13:00
Text My name to this number

Unknown 13:03
855-385-5563. That's 855-385-5553. That's right. Standard data and text rates will apply. But you're gonna love all of the information that you get. Craig, that was a great segment with you really appreciate it. We'll talk to you next week. Hey, thanks, Jim. Bye bye. When we return

Unknown 14:00

Hey, by the way, next week, I'm going to be running webinars on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, open to the general public. I have a closed one for FBI Infragard on Thursday. But Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we're going to be going through that really kind of an assessment here. Where's your business hat? What's your security standards? What should you be doing? So we have all of that up on my website just go to http://craigpeterson.com. You can register at the home page. Take care. Have a great day. And we will be probably putting out two of these today because I already was on the stations up in Maine with Ken and Matt. So we'll probably be talking to you very shortly. Take care.

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Airing date: 10/15/2018

Security And Online Scams

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey, good morning, everybody. This morning I was on with Jack Heath who's now covering most of New England states. It's, it's kind of cool, but I was on with him. We were talking about security and safety and what we need to do. There's a lot of scams going on. Many of them are aimed, frankly, at our more senior population, and they are doing just a ton of harm. So we talked a little bit about that. I was surprised at how much jack new and kiss I guess he's been briefed right, paying attention. Good, jack. So here we go this morning with Jackie and talking a little bit about security. What you can do right now with the scammers, especially the guys are coming in on your phones. I gave him an app that I use that I think is very useful. In fact, everybody that I've told about that's installed it has absolutely loved it. So here we go with Jack. 

Unknown 0:53
right now. The Tech Talk update go on the author. Let's find Craig. Peterson on his show Tech Talk. And of course, Craig Peterson, with on on Peterson.com. Craig joins us now on the listener lines. Good morning Craig.

Unknown 1:05
Hey, good morning Jack. What a busy week again, that like there's news to talk about. Well, you know, I guess you heard Kate Martel with the hill. Same it's kind of quiet

Unknown 1:15
except for the Trump President Trump interview with 60 minutes kind of quiet. But anyway, Craig, what's going on?

Unknown 1:21
Well, we got a lot of things here on the tech side, that's for sure. You mentioned elections coming up. There's a great article that I put up on my website that came from CNET talking about how election security is an absolute mess in some states frankly it's a disaster we've got a pretty good setup here in New Hampshire we've got some good checks and balances some auditing going on but Illinois for instance is saying that they don't have any federal funds Republic clean up their election system so I think we may be looking at at least until

Unknown 1:58
we may be looking at some contested election over whether or not something was hacked or people's votes were actually cast properly

Unknown 2:08
alright tomorrow I want to mention to the to its credit union weekend tomorrow we're gonna have a special focus on credit unions and we're going to be also going to be moderating a lunch and and conquered as they talk about things like scams and New Hampshire, elderly financial abuse is really prevalent in terms of some of our aging folks who are victimized too often with these financial online scams. Craig you know, you can't, you know, it seems like this is the one I love, you know, you get a number, it's a new hampshire number. So, you think it's, you know, you're going to answer yourself and it says something, you know, that they're trying to call you to extend your warranty and your car or you know, something about your, you know, here's a chance to do this for more credit, or here's a chance to settle college debt or call this number if you want to, you know, make money on that. I mean, it's just unbelievable. The number of scams, they really are scams out there.

Unknown 3:00
Oh, and there are a lot and they are hitting the elderly but they're hitting everybody to i gotta tell everyone who's listening about an app that you might want to check out for your smartphone I was getting dozens of calls every day and what they're scammers are doing is they're just randomly picking up phone numbers that are similar to yours so it'll be like say your numbers six old 3566 something you'll get a call from 603566 something they'll be impersonating one of these local phone numbers and they'll do everything you were just talking about so have a look at this app there's a free version of paid versions called Hiya, H-I-Y-A, Hiya, H-I-Y-A and what that does jack is that has a whole database behind it have about 300,000 known scam phone numbers she's it is done what's the app for me it's called Hiya, H-I-Y-A. Hiya, H-I-Y-A. And it's a phenomenal tool because it does block a lot of these scams and as you said there everything and they sound so legitimate I wanted to so well how do you spell that age what age I y and the other ones India Yankee alpha okay the other one I will ask you because we did get a listener to ask you about this there's an ad that's on I think it's for Experian to find out until you've seen the ad when you're watching the game some is your social security number on the dark web you can go on to do you recommend that are not well yeah there's a couple of things you can do but the here's the bottom line jack in this day and age thanks experience a huge gave the bad guys all of our social security numbers. So the odds are in this day and age that your information has been compromised, it is on the dark what should you do? It has been well there's nothing you can do to get it down. You need to make sure you change your password and we have to make an assumption jack I've got a great article about this right now up there. You have to set up all of your financial accounts like you're going to be half man that you have been hacked. The That's the truth. I agree. And we're gonna have more on this at this credit union event tomorrow and conquer. But Craig The other thing is, many people know the bank or the credit card carrier that they they have the thing that you're the expert, not me. But don't fall to this one. If you get an email and it looks like it's from your bank or credit card

Unknown 5:29
company don't assume it is because they can make these emails look like it's from that and then they want you to verify some account information and ask you a question. If you made discharge over the weekend. That's a scam as well. If you're not sure call on the back of the card or your back. Call them and ask if they are reaching out to you. So you can't even trust an email these days. It seems all right. No, thank you. We gotta run online. Jack. Don't click on anything in an email. Don't open that you Craig. Great. Peterson and we come back some businesses

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Airing date: 10/15/2018

Security And Online Scams

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey, good morning, everybody. This morning I was on with Jack Heath who's now covering most of New England states. It's, it's kind of cool, but I was on with him. We were talking about security and safety and what we need to do. There's a lot of scams going on. Many of them are aimed, frankly, at our more senior population, and they are doing just a ton of harm. So we talked a little bit about that. I was surprised at how much jack new and kiss I guess he's been briefed right, paying attention. Good, jack. So here we go this morning with Jackie and talking a little bit about security. What you can do right now with the scammers, especially the guys are coming in on your phones. I gave him an app that I use that I think is very useful. In fact, everybody that I've told about that's installed it has absolutely loved it. So here we go with Jack. 

Unknown 0:53
right now. The Tech Talk update go on the author. Let's find Craig. Peterson on his show Tech Talk. And of course, Craig Peterson, with on on Peterson.com. Craig joins us now on the listener lines. Good morning Craig.

Unknown 1:05
Hey, good morning Jack. What a busy week again, that like there's news to talk about. Well, you know, I guess you heard Kate Martel with the hill. Same it's kind of quiet

Unknown 1:15
except for the Trump President Trump interview with 60 minutes kind of quiet. But anyway, Craig, what's going on?

Unknown 1:21
Well, we got a lot of things here on the tech side, that's for sure. You mentioned elections coming up. There's a great article that I put up on my website that came from CNET talking about how election security is an absolute mess in some states frankly it's a disaster we've got a pretty good setup here in New Hampshire we've got some good checks and balances some auditing going on but Illinois for instance is saying that they don't have any federal funds Republic clean up their election system so I think we may be looking at at least until

Unknown 1:58
we may be looking at some contested election over whether or not something was hacked or people's votes were actually cast properly

Unknown 2:08
alright tomorrow I want to mention to the to its credit union weekend tomorrow we're gonna have a special focus on credit unions and we're going to be also going to be moderating a lunch and and conquered as they talk about things like scams and New Hampshire, elderly financial abuse is really prevalent in terms of some of our aging folks who are victimized too often with these financial online scams. Craig you know, you can't, you know, it seems like this is the one I love, you know, you get a number, it's a new hampshire number. So, you think it's, you know, you're going to answer yourself and it says something, you know, that they're trying to call you to extend your warranty and your car or you know, something about your, you know, here's a chance to do this for more credit, or here's a chance to settle college debt or call this number if you want to, you know, make money on that. I mean, it's just unbelievable. The number of scams, they really are scams out there.

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Oh, and there are a lot and they are hitting the elderly but they're hitting everybody to i gotta tell everyone who's listening about an app that you might want to check out for your smartphone I was getting dozens of calls every day and what they're scammers are doing is they're just randomly picking up phone numbers that are similar to yours so it'll be like say your numbers six old 3566 something you'll get a call from 603566 something they'll be impersonating one of these local phone numbers and they'll do everything you were just talking about so have a look at this app there's a free version of paid versions called Hiya, H-I-Y-A, Hiya, H-I-Y-A and what that does jack is that has a whole database behind it have about 300,000 known scam phone numbers she's it is done what's the app for me it's called Hiya, H-I-Y-A. Hiya, H-I-Y-A. And it's a phenomenal tool because it does block a lot of these scams and as you said there everything and they sound so legitimate I wanted to so well how do you spell that age what age I y and the other ones India Yankee alpha okay the other one I will ask you because we did get a listener to ask you about this there's an ad that's on I think it's for Experian to find out until you've seen the ad when you're watching the game some is your social security number on the dark web you can go on to do you recommend that are not well yeah there's a couple of things you can do but the here's the bottom line jack in this day and age thanks experience a huge gave the bad guys all of our social security numbers. So the odds are in this day and age that your information has been compromised, it is on the dark what should you do? It has been well there's nothing you can do to get it down. You need to make sure you change your password and we have to make an assumption jack I've got a great article about this right now up there. You have to set up all of your financial accounts like you're going to be half man that you have been hacked. The That's the truth. I agree. And we're gonna have more on this at this credit union event tomorrow and conquer. But Craig The other thing is, many people know the bank or the credit card carrier that they they have the thing that you're the expert, not me. But don't fall to this one. If you get an email and it looks like it's from your bank or credit card

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company don't assume it is because they can make these emails look like it's from that and then they want you to verify some account information and ask you a question. If you made discharge over the weekend. That's a scam as well. If you're not sure call on the back of the card or your back. Call them and ask if they are reaching out to you. So you can't even trust an email these days. It seems all right. No, thank you. We gotta run online. Jack. Don't click on anything in an email. Don't open that you Craig. Great. Peterson and we come back some businesses

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